Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +4
    Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

    THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST FOUNDATION 

    The object for which the Company is established is the advancement of education for the public benefit.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
    • There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception

    Financial issues to consider:

    • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Year end 31/12/17 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/07/21 31/07/22
    Income £4,151,736 £4,518,296 £3,887,211 £3,887,211 £3,532,359
    Spending £3,480,053 £4,939,723 £4,221,491 £4,221,491 £3,726,448
    Surplus/deficit £671,683 -£421,427 -£334,280 -£334,280 -£194,089
    Established: 9 years

    www.queensfoundation.com

    foundation@qub.ac.uk

    Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • The advancement of education
    GiG Classification
    • Colleges and universities
    How it operates
    • Education/training, Research/evaluation
    Where it operates
    • Northern Ireland
    Who it helps
    • General public

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
    £300,000 07/10/2022
    The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
    Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to The Queen's University Belfast Foundation
    £14,860 26/11/2019
    36
    The Queen’s University Belfast (Queen’s) Junior Academy of Music (JAM) - Covid-19 flexibility agreed
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
    £250,000 27/03/2019
    Queen's University Belfast Simulation Centre

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Further information may be available on the charity's page on the Commission website here
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Northern Ireland on 13/10/2015, number: NIC102044
    Main office

    Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
    360 Giving
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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